What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this? It is one of the anthems of rock español. Burningthe legendary band led by Johnny Cifuentes, composed this song in 1974 for the film of the same name. Fernando Colomo. His lyrics reflect the plot of the film in which he starred Carmen Maura and in which he appears as an extra Pedro Almodovar.
There are songs that time has turned into anthems and that’s where it comes in. What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this? from the Madrid group Burning.
The band of rock led by Johnny Cifuentes he composed the song on request in 1978 for the film of the same name by Fernando Colomo and made lyrics 100% adapted to the plot of the film starring Carmen Maura.
The actress of Women at the edge of a nervous attack plays Rosa, a middle-aged woman who experiences a radical change in life after separating from her husband and meeting a young man. rocker. The differences between the two are great, but that is not an obstacle for both of them to experience exciting situations at night in Madrid.
That story goes in line with the lyrics of the Burning songcomposed after Colomo rejected a proposal by singer-songwriter Luis Eduardo Aute and that the magazine Rolling Stone placed in 2010 at number 7 in the ranking of the 200 best Spanish pop rock songs.
The song has also been covered by numerous artists, including Loquillo and the Troglodytes one of the best known.
The lyrics of ‘What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this?’
What does a girl like you do
In a place like this?
What kind of adventure
Have you come to search?
The years give you away, baby,
You are out of place.
You go hunting,
Who are you going to catch?
do not use
your games with me
Fatal woman, always in trouble…
What do you have in your eyes, baby,
Or you’re going to cry.
I already know that someone stepped on your pride
In a dark portal.
Don’t try to catch me,
I have already learned to fly